The Week In Woke

America's ugliest little wallflower loser will ignore the public vote on banning males from girl's sports.

The statement was 148 words. Not one of those words was "girls."

Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said that she was going to back the Seattle School Board's unanimous vote to pursue legal action against Initiative 638 -- which would enforce separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports in Washington state.

Voters passed the measure by a 13-point margin last week, and it won in 36 of the Evergreen State's 39 counties. But after deliberating behind closed doors Monday, the Seattle School Board voted publicly to authorize potential legal action against the measure without hearing public testimony. And the mayor fully approves.

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"As mayor, I remain committed to building a Seattle where every person is welcomed, supported, and valued, and where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves. I support the Board's decision and its commitment to creating inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential."

Remember, Seattle was one of the epicenters of the "No Kings" movement, where tens of thousands rallied against a president they accused of disregarding the will of the people. Yet when Washington voters overwhelmingly supported a measure Wilson opposes, she had no problem backing an effort to overturn it. Apparently, the will of the people is only worth defending when the people vote the right way.

Capping off Wilson's statement was a paragraph of political platitudes so empty it would make even a seasoned politician blush. She wants to build a Seattle "where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves," and "create inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential."

Girls don't, of course. They'll continue to be dominated, harassed, and menaced by male cheaters with a bizarre hatred of women.

Earlier in the week I linked Laura Yakas, a "professor" of social work, whose "teaching" consists of her badly strumming her guitar, badly singing, and doing her "comedy" act for students going in debt hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a job that pays $50,000 per year. If you haven't seen that, do check it out.

Her "academic" work consists of making arguments about why the "neurodivergent" and "mad" should be given privileges. She means "mad" in the sense of "mentally ill." She's a pioneer in the field of "mad studies," and I strongly suspect she has a very personal interest in the subject.

I also strongly suspect she was hired precisely because she ticks the Intersectional Box of Obvious and Florid Mental Illness.

Her "academic" work is what you might expect.

Yakas' academic publications are equally unconventional, including her 2009 work, Femininity, Sexuality and Body Hair: The female body hair(less) ideal, which is no longer available online.

In her chapter Love Is Merely a Madness in the 2023 Routledge academic book Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals, Yakas argues that society has historically treated people whose sexual identities or behaviors fall outside traditional heterosexual norms as mentally ill or abnormal. She challenges those beliefs, arguing that sexual diversity is natural and that labeling it a mental disorder is itself harmful.

In the same book, she co-authored the chapter Compulsory Monogamy Is Disabling: Connecting Disability Justice and Critical Non-monogamy with Nicole Ariel Lopez. In it, Yakas and Lopez argue that society's expectation that people should have only one romantic or sexual partner can be harmful and discriminatory. They compare traditional expectations of monogamy to discrimination against people with disabilities, arguing that both create barriers that prevent people from living as they choose. They advocate for greater acceptance of relationships involving multiple partners, arguing that people should be free to pursue love, sex, and companionship in ways that meet their individual needs.

She's an advocate for "Mad Pride." The pride that insane people should have in their insanity.

Like I said, this madwoman has a personal interest in Mad Studies.

Recently, after accidentally falling down a rather deep Google rabbit hole, I learned a new term: Mad Pride, which, in simple terms, is a movement trying to encourage society to view neurodivergence and other mental illnesses in a more positive light. "Mad" is a reclaimed term, meaning that, although it has been used in a derogatory manner in the past, people once targeted by the term now use it to self-describe themselves. Mad Pride as a movement began in the 1970s in response to coercive treatments in mental healthcare, which all too often attempted to subdue a patient and emphasized productivity and adherence to social norms, sometimes at the expense of actually improving their quality of life.
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What is madness anyway?

Recently, I spoke with Laura Yakas, a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work with an interest in Mad Pride. She Zoomed in from New Zealand, where she grew up, and where she is currently staying while she teaches remotely.

We started by getting clear on terms. While I had always thought neurodiversity referred primarily to conditions like Autism or ADHD, Yakas said she uses it to refer to mental health conditions more broadly. Yakas also differentiated between innate neurodiversity, which a person is born with, and acquired neurodiversity, which is often caused by trauma. For example, Autism would be considered innate and a condition like PTSD would be acquired.

Yakas further argued that there is a lot of overlap between madness and neurodiversity, and different people may prefer one term over the other for a variety of reasons. As a result, these terms are often used interchangeably. But, Yakas emphasized, someone who identifies with the ideals of Mad Pride would likely say that none of these conditions mean someone's brain is "wrong" or "broken."

The thrust of her "academic" work is claiming that neurodivergent people -- people with autism or insanity -- are actually the sane and normal ones, and the normal and sane ones are the abnormal and insane ones.

She's created a new Intersectional Category of privilege: "saneism," the belief that sane people have that their mental sanity allows them to see the world correctly and make logical judgments about it.

But this is just a "social construction" -- saneism proposes that what society calls "sane" is just what a bunch of bigots have agreed to in order to demonize insane people, The Real Heroes Here.

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"Neurotypical ... doesn't mean normal," Yakas explained. "It means someone whose neurotype is not being pathologized in their particular culture at this time."

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Yakas also argued that madness is, at least in part, socially constructed. There has been somewhat of a cultural shift in recent years in terms of viewing diagnoses like Autism and ADHD as a form of neurodiversity rather than as diseases needing to be cured. ...

Because of saneism, mad people are often denied the ability to define their own experience -- as evidenced by the push to cure autistic people of something much of the community doesn't view as a disease. Of her own experience, Yakas said that the messaging she received was, "I have a broken brain. Nothing that I'm saying is real. Everything is irrational."

In many cases, stigma prevents mad or neurodiverse people from being able to define their own experience. It can also prevent mad people from entering mental health professions, which means that many of those treating mental illness don't have lived experience.

She wants lunatics to be part of the mental health system -- treating mental illness with their own mental illness. Which they also assert is not mental illness as all.

That's just your "saneism" talking, Bigot.

Speaking of insane people attempting to define reality for sane people:

TPUSA staffers discuss the Retard Tranny Wizard who attacked them.

And yes, the retard has they/them pronouns.

He was identified by law enforcement as Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, and booked into the Smith County Jail. He faces two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault causing bodily injury.

The Smith County Criminal District Attorney's Office could not be reached for comment Wednesday by The College Fix on what formal charges Tomlian may face. A jail spokesperson told The Fix on Thursday that Tomlain was booked out of jail Wednesday night on bond.

Tomlian was seen in a video vandalizing a Turning Point USA display, ripping down an American flag, calling the TPUSA members "fascist pieces of sh*t," and using a prop cane to smack a member's legs before he was subdued and arrested. He was wearing a cape and some sort of wizard hat at the time.

According to his Instagram account, Tomlian goes by he/they/she pronouns.

That doesn't even make sense. All three of those are subject pronouns. It has no object pronouns. So you'd say "I'd like to give she a punch in the mug"?

Even when playing a game for retards, zhe still makes the most retarded move possible.

The violence won't stop until people start knocking these people the **** out.

But you can't do that, of course. While this retard will be "sentenced" to time served for an unprovoked assault, you'd go to jail for a year for knocking she out in self-defense.

Speaking of that:

Via Steve Inman, a crackhead comes charging a guy out of nowhere, but joins the Ludacris Hall of Fame.

A 15-year old immigrant from Ghana was shot dead in NYC. It was a major story.

A 17-year-old has been arrested on a murder charge in the deadly shooting of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong.

Police picked him up for questioning at his home in the Bronx Wednesday morning and took him to the 42nd Precinct.

The NYPD is not identifying the suspect due to his age, but he is facing charges of murder, manslaughter and other firearm-related charges.

Now it's becoming a much less major story....

Woke 1 was craaaazy.

Why are you not cheering louder?